BEVERLY — An actionable home advance architect who showed up with big promises and larboard his victims cash-strapped and, in a brace of cases, abandoned for a time, charge absorb at atomic two years in accompaniment prison, a adjudicator ordered on Thursday.
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And aback he gets out, Jaime Ford, 49, will absorb four years on probation, ordered to pay $214,500 in amends to several of his victims, two allowance companies, and the state, which had to absorb $30,000 to apple-pie up alarming asbestos larboard alfresco a Beverly home.
He's barred from authoritative any of that money as a contractor, the adjudicator ordered.
"These were crimes of dishonesty, and they were calculated," said Salem Superior Court Adjudicator Thomas Drechsler, who bidding accurate affair that Ford played on his victims' affections with busy — and apocryphal — belief about his allegedly dying wife, his accouchement accessory her burial and his affirmation that he was a veteran.
"It's aloof inexcusable," said the judge, as Ford's very-much-alive wife, and added associates of his family, sat in a attorneys gallery.
On the added ancillary of the courtroom, Gloria Lilja of Beverly was amid the victims who came to allege at Ford's sentencing.
Lilja, who went accessible with her bearings afterwards Ford was aboriginal answerable in the case, anecdotal in a victim-impact account apprehend by her babe to Drechsler how she had been aching in a abatement and was in a wheelchair aback she and her babe and son-in-law came up with a plan that would acquiesce her to abide in the Chipman Road home. Her babe and son-in-law could move in with her if they congenital an addition.
Ford, who alleged the aged retired assistant "Nonni," had assertive her that he could body a additional adventure on the ranch-style home, and that he'd be done afore the holidays.
But he talked her out of costs the activity with a architecture accommodation — article she afterwards abstruse would accept appear his abridgement of any home advance architect authorization — and instead assertive her to accessible a home disinterestedness line.
After gutting the home, he told Lilja he'd begin asbestos and bare money for remediation. She gave him money for that, alone to apprentice he'd artlessly blimp it into a dumpster and larboard it about the property.
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And then, he told her that he'd apparent the sills were addle and would charge to be replaced, at a amount of $100,000.
"He told us we were like family," Kaarin Robinson, Lilja's daughter, read, "and we believed him."
Instead of alive on their home, Ford was application their money to buy new Cadillacs, pay hire on affluence homes in Lynnfield and Middleton, and booty bank trips to the Hard Rock Casino in Florida, prosecutor Philip Mallard told the judge.
Excuses
Two added victims, Adam and Kendall Ellard, a adolescent brace from North Andover, had Mallard apprehend their statement, in which they declared their action at affairs their aboriginal address with a Veterans Administration loan.
That action anon angry into a nightmare.
When a assemblage aloft endemic abounding in 2014, causing all-encompassing baptize damage, they looked for a architect and begin Ford. He showed up at their home. "The alone affair he told them that was accurate was his name," Mallard told the judge, apery their victim-impact statement. They paid Ford $40,000 but as the weeks went by, the excuses began.
Then Adam Ellard, who works for the Massachusetts secretary of state's office, began attractive into Ford. He apparent a continued account of asleep corporations Ford had started, all of them involuntarily attenuated by the state.
And he apparent that Ford was not a veteran.
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The Ellards concluded up blockage in a auberge for a time, then, aback they'd maxed out their acclaim card, anguish up in a relative's basement. They eventually confused aback to their condo, but what assignment Ford had done was base — the floors are warping and the electrical assignment needs to be replaced.
A Hudson woman, Luan Dean, told the adjudicator that she had assassin Ford to annihilate an old home she'd purchased at bargain so she could advertise the acreage to advice accounts her retirement. Instead, she let him actuate her to clean the aged anatomy and again cast it for a profit.
But again the excuses started, including the belief about his dying wife.
In fact, aback Beverly Police Detective Darlene Prinz aboriginal alleged Dean, she told the judge, she chastised the detective for afflictive a man whose wife had aloof died.
"I acquainted accusable and ashamed that I had been so gullible," said Dean, who now cannot allow to retire and who is adversity from stress-related bloom problems she blames on the situation. But worse, she said, she no best trusts her own acumen about others.
Ford pleaded accusable in November, aloof canicule afore he was set to angle trial, to a absolute of 42 counts, including assorted accuse of larceny, allowance fraud, forgery, home advance fraud, abuse of regulations administering asbestos abatement and disposal, actionable accompaniment architecture codes, and authoritative apocryphal statements beneath oath, and distinct counts of character fraud, workers advantage fraud, accepting signatures by apocryphal pretense, conspiracy, authoritative a apocryphal address of a crime, and to actuality a accepted and belled thief.
Mallard, in a audition in November, declared how Ford again artificial signatures and acclimated the identities of accountant contractors. He additionally bootless to book taxes for several years — article he will accept to do as a action of his probation.
Ford additionally accepted to ambidexterity the allowance carrier for his own brother's aggregation by claiming that he was an agent and again accession workers advantage allowances and medical coverage.
Mallard had asked for a three to four year bastille term.
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Restitution owed
Defense advocate Kirk Bransfield apprenticed Drechsler to appoint alone acquittal — suggesting that the alone way Ford would be able to pay amends would be for him to abide working.
Bransfield had adumbrated that a acquaintance of Ford would be advantageous the $214,000 amends anon afterwards the hearing. But he told Drechsler on Thursday that the woman who had apprenticed to address that check, Ford's girlfriend, had not yet accustomed an accepted $3 actor inheritance.
The advocate went on to say that at most, ancestors associates could pay $30,000 — but alone if Ford backward out of bastille so that he could assignment to accord them.
Bransfield additionally submitted 23 belletrist from ancestors associates and accompany of Ford, who characterized him as a acceptable person.
"There are two abandon to every story," Bransfield told the judge.
Since activity accessible with her story, Lilja and her ancestors accustomed an access of abutment from the community, including fundraisers.
Windover Development afterwards came forward, alms to clean her home. But beneath the judge's order, Ford charge pay her $40,000 in amends to awning the amount of the absorption on the home disinterestedness band he assertive her to take, as able-bodied as hire she paid for an accommodation "while her home was in ruins," said the prosecutor.
Dean is declared to accept $80,000. The Ellards are due $2,500.
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But Drechsler accustomed that in the deathwatch of a Supreme Judicial Court accommodation adage that board cannot force a actor to pay amends if they are begin clumsy to pay it, those victims may not get their money.
Courts anchorman Julie Manganis can be accomplished at 978-338-2521, by email at jmanganis@salemnews.com or on Twitter at @SNJulieManganis.
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